Bill Dee

Stan Sexton thought he was helping out an old friend, if only briefly. He didn’t expect it to turn into something beyond that. But one thing led to another, and Sexton is back in high school football nearly three years after his run at Phoebus came to an unexpected end. He will join Nansemond River coach David Coccoli’s staff as a paid assistant. “He talked to me back in February about coming over to talk to the coaches about I-formation stuff,” Sexton said. “I didn’t know he had an ulterior motive to it. He basically said, ‘You might as well join the staff, and I’m not taking no for an answer.’ “When I decided to do this, I...

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